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January 19, 2006
Sales of iPod music players propelled Apple Computer Inc.'s quarterly revenue and profit to all-time highs, with earnings nearly doubling from a year earlier reports the LAtimes
Apple earned $565 million, or 65 cents a share, in its fiscal first quarter, compared with $295 million, or 70 cents, a year earlier, before a 2-for-1 stock split.
Despite increased research spending, Apple beat estimates "quite materially," said Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research, an equity research firm.
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Sony has begun offering $500 trade-in bonuses on Dell notebooks and paying solution providers additional incentives reports informationWeek.
"I think that's actually great," said Andrew Krantz, senior account manager at Westwood Computer, a solution provider and Sony partner based in Springfield, N.J. "Anything that targets Dell is good. Dell has a unique way of stealing business, so any way we could steal business back is positive."
Sony's trade-in offer of $500 for working Dell systems tops the $300 it provides for trade-ins on all other systems for Vaio BX series notebooks. Sony said the rebate can be claimed by solution providers for their clients.
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November 5, 2005
 Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, on Tuesday announced plans to deliver many of its key products and services as online services as well as selling subscriptions or licenses for software installed on computers reports Reuters.
"These new offerings demonstrate how software is evolving through the power of services in ways that enable more dynamic and relevant experiences for people", said Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect.
Windows Live and Office Live will give users some of the basic features of the software giant's two most-profitable products, but without the complexity of installing and maintaining the software in computer hard drives.
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November 4, 2005
Samsung Electronics Co., Korea has shot down rumors of plans to enter the online music business with a system similar to Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes service.
"We are not at all interested in a music service ourselves," Choi Gee-sung, president of Samsung's digital media business told reporters.
South Korean media earlier this week quoted Choi as saying the company planned such a service, remarks later confirmed by the company.
Choi on Thursday said there had been a misunderstanding of comments he made to Korean reporters late last week reports Yahoo News
Samsung is currently bottoming for muscle top Apple, so while a music service of their own is inevitable, now is obviously not the time.
Pictured Samsung's YP-F1 flash player
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October 31, 2005
Handset maker Nokia and music label EMI have started a project to let coffee shop customers listen to music sent to their phone via Bluetooth.
As well as music, customers will be able to get hold of ringtones, wallpaper, video clips and vouchers reports BBC.
The first free tests of the service will be in six coffee shops and music stores in Helsinki, Finland.
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Samsung Electronics, Korea's biggest digital products maker has announced plans for a digital media player application like iTunes of Apple Computer.
Samsung president Choi Gee-sung made the remarks during a press conference late last week South Korean newspaper the Chosun Ilbo reports.
"We are now in talks with our partners to debut a service program like iTunes of Apple. Our No. 1 priority is to help customers use our products with ease," the 54-year-old said.
"Our items show healthy performances in China and Southeast Asian countries where iTunes services are not provided," he added.
Choi said the service will be launched domestically and overseas shortly.Choi gave no other details, but the service is likely to be founded on Windows Media technology, leaving Samsung competing against the likes of Napster, Virgin Digital, HMV and Yahoo! Music reports the Register
Samsung, a latecomer in the MP3 digital audio player business, has tried to catch up with Apple, which commands the portable audio player market.
The Seoul-based firm has vended flash memory-based items with a brand of Yepp and sold about 1.7 million MP3 players last year. Choi said the success of iPod has affected Samsung minimally and the company has enough energy to jump over bigger competitors.
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October 19, 2005
IBM, today announced that it has acquired DataPower, a company specialized in tools for XML message processing reports Xinhua
DataPower, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, offers products that improve security and the speed of processing transactions, which simplify SOA deployments by hiding the complexities of handling different message formats.
DataPower products include the X150 Integration Device, which streamlines SOA infrastructure; the XA35 XML Accelerator for XML processing, and the XS40 XML Security Gateway, to provide message-level web services security.
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October 17, 2005
Apple Computer , the maker of iPod digital music players, has dropped a joint $3.8 billion investment plan for flash chip production with Samsung Electronics.
Apple, had plans to buy as much as 40 percent of Samsung's flash memory output in the second half of this year for its popular iPod Shuffle and other music players reports Reuters. Last Week Macworld reported that South Korea's anti-trust regulator had plans to question Apple Computer and Samsung about unfair trading practices. Samsung reportedly sold a significant amount of its NAND flash memory chips to Apple at a discounted rate for the launch of the iPod nano.
"Apple had proposed a joint investment with Samsung Electronics in the production lines of NAND flash chips used for its MP3 players," a senior Samsung official was quoted by the Korea Economic Daily as saying.
"But as the anti-Samsung sentiment has recently deepened among some political and civic groups, Apple ended the talks, complaining about the sentiment,"
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September 28, 2005
Cingular Wireless, has announced plans to use RealNetworks Inc.'s video streaming technology to deliver video to mobile phones, the companies said late on Tuesday reports Yahoo News.
"If Microsoft had won this contract the battle for the mobile media player market would have been close to being over," said Ovum analyst Roger Entner, who noted that Microsoft is ahead of RealNetworks in the desktop media player market.
"This is version 2.0 of the media player battle. It shows that somebody is fighting back," Entner said.
Cingular's biggest rival, Verizon Wireless, uses Microsoft's media player for a mobile video service that delivers news and entertainment video clips to customers using its high-speed wireless data network.
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September 24, 2005
Sony Corp. plans to cut around 10,000 jobs, close eleven plants and reduce or close fifteen unprofitable operations as part of a major restructuring of the company.
Ryoji Chubachi, Sony's president and electronics CEO, made specific comments relating to Sony's video game holdings, in both the PlayStation 3 and PSP, commenting in particular of the costs related to designing the PlayStation 3: "Game-related investment has been wrapped up and we hope the game business will recoup the investment."
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